Nurx’s Varsha Rao: “The simplest things were incredibly hard”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Varsha Rao, chief executive of Nurx, to talk about running a women’s health company in Covid (2:50), seeing demand double (6:40), the staying power of telehealth (8:50), doing a startup in the first dotcom boom (13:35), what she learned (16:35), being a female founder (18:20), joining as an early executive at Airbnb (20;50), shifting to healthcare (25:30), starting at Nurx at a difficult time (27:55), launching migraine and acne treatments (31:30), convincing insurance companies to pay (33:10), what’s changed since the first bubble (36:40), and her best and worst days (38:05).

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0:00.0	Yo, technology.
0:03.0	What is it all about?
0:04.6	Telehealth has gone from being a second or third option to kind of the primary way that people want to have a first conversation or a first experience.
0:14.5	And I don't think that's going to change. Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds with the top people in tech.
0:33.6	A very good day to you.
0:35.8	How are you all doing?
0:37.1	Things are pretty glorious out here.
0:38.4	The sun is shining.
0:39.9	It's almost summer-like, which of course made me immediately think about,
0:43.9	ooh, summer isn't going to actually be that far away.
0:46.9	And of course, that means wildfires out here.
0:49.1	So I went and ordered a couple air purifiers for the house
0:52.2	so that we are not caught out like we were last year when the inevitable run on air purifiers for the house so that we are not caught out like we were last year
0:55.4	when the inevitable run on air purifiers happens around July or August.
1:01.9	At least that's what's been happening these last few years.
1:03.8	Hopefully it doesn't happen again, but these are difficult times we live in.
1:08.2	But anyhow, we're not talking about climate this week.
1:10.9	We are talking about birth control.
1:14.0	And more broadly, women's health.
1:16.3	On the program, we have Varsha Rao, who is the chief executive of Nurex, which is a website.
1:22.4	It's also an app through which women can get everything from birth control,
1:26.8	pills and patches to STI tests,
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